Word: yorkerism
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...Savers, 55-year-old Edward John Noble. An eminently successful business man, a flying enthusiast for ten years, a man with undeniable poise and organizational ability, tested in business and in the Wartime U. S. Army, he represented what the air industry has cried loudest for. An upstate New Yorker and a Republican, Edward John Noble worked for a time as a reporter on the Watertown Daily Times, became the best treasurer the Gouverneur Athenian Society ever had, then packed himself off to Yale. Broke when he entered, he organized and ran an eating club, marked himself as likely...
...sessions of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for the New York Times. After 16 years with the Times and four years with the New York Herald Tribune, he began a lucrative career as a freelance writer, achieved wide renown as a frequent author of the New Yorker's Profiles...
...Badgers are liberals. Month ago the conservatives on Madison's Langdon St. (Wisconsin's swank fraternity row) routed the liberals, elected their ticket* to the board of control of the undergraduate Daily Cardinal. Next day the new board ousted curly-haired Richard J. Davis, a New Yorker and no fraternity man, who had been elected executive editor by the retiring board to succeed New Yorker Morton Newman. The new board complained of Editor Davis' Leftist leanings, said he could not work in harmony with the diverse groups producing the paper. But one member blurted...
...Yorker, Manhattan smart-chart, ran an interview with Grover Aloysius Whalen, fine-figured president of New York's forthcoming World's Fair (seep. 35). Excerpts: "My personal investigation in Europe has conclusively proved to me that there'll be no war. Why, the uncle of the King of Egypt told me today that there positively will be no war. ... A wave of enthusiasm for the World's Fair is sweeping Europe. That's what Europe is thinking of now-not war." Also last week the enterprising Mr. Whalen was pleased to pose with a group...
...allowing RFC to use $1,500,000,000 for loans of almost any sort. Last week, therefore, RFC Chairman Jesse Jones took to the air to invite businessmen to "come and get it." This they did with a rush: in Manhattan, for example, the Hotel New Yorker politely but firmly asked a bureau of the Smaller Business Association of New York to leave after 600 would-be borrowers had stormed it one morning in search of RFC loan application blanks. Nonetheless, Jesse Jones and Franklin Roosevelt were apparently not satisfied that enough uses had yet been found for RFC munificence...